I mean yeah but SOMEBODY needs to get smarter -Scientists? Inventors? -so I guess I can’t just accept everyone getting dumber. Can’t we JUST get nicer? No? And why do I feel like I keep getting dumber? I don’t want to but it feels like it is happening. l’m trying not to be evil. But I may be cranky.
Being smarter doesn't mean more kinder either. It just gives them more excuses. The self righteousness believe they are above reproach.
Doesn't matter what they call themselves once they are obsessed with their own righteousness to the removal of others, kindness goes out the door.
I feel like that's a general misunderstanding, though.
The idea that Golden Retrievers are "dumb" is just a stereotype. They're a very smart animal, people just think they're dumb cuz they're kind.
To be smart is to be kind. It is the ability to understand others and their feelings.
If we were getting dumber but also richer, that would probably be the case. But everyone’s lives are getting progressively worse along with the dumbness increase.
The meanest dog that ever attacked me on my morning runs is a golden retriever. This gigantic, long-haired creature was viscous. I was never in his yard. He bit me through an electric fence.
There's a point here, but something I noticed is that when people are desperate, that's where things like fascism take root.
It's hard to ask a starting man to care about the environment as it were.
Add to that that both parties tend toward supporters that are self righteous and you create a danger
The danger is already here. Lives are at risk right here and now. They are being threatened by none but fascism and greed. It is all one struggle. The ecology, society, economics, politics, education… it’s all about the same thing. Where is the root?
Where and when did it all go wrong? You tell me.
me too! not all of the kind people I know are smart, but none of the cruel people are
I think if education put more energy into developing empathy, the next generations would solve a lot of problems we currently try (and fail) to solve with laws and surveillance
Reasons for being mean are mostly simpler than reasons for being nice. Unless you are already just inclined towards niceness by nature, getting dumber will generally also mean getting meaner and more selfish.
I love the golden retriever analogy! Just yesterday, my sister and I encountered one who joyfully rolled over loving us and everyone in his path. He's a comfort service dog and wouldn't get up off the floor. The joys of his fawning affection were greatly appreciated. Ya' just gotta' love them all.🤗💕
My opinion is dumber should be replaced with stupider since I think people can be born dumb and are good people but stupidity is learned and the stupider people get the meaner they get or the meaner the stupider they get, fox propaganda is the stupid virus patient zero and super spreader
The apps shows us the worst of worlds beliefs and we start to feel threatened or hurt or sub human and get angry. The other side feel what we feel.
Meet and love is only way
Impossible tho
We’re getting more polarized. The good are becoming better, the evil are becoming worse. It just seems like it’s everyone because evil is often loud and forceful. We can be just as loud though.
No, the good don't exist. Self righteousness is an evil to be mindful of as well.
Progress is like a tree, but there are sadly people who are just as self righteousness as conservatives that they see any branch other then their own as just as far to the right as anything else.
Everyone wishes they lived in the Golden retriever-fication timeline, but we're in the Chihuahua-fication timeline. Also getting dumber but also more cruel
George W Bush's No Child Left Behind educational program left many children behind. That was intentional because the under educated are more likely to vote Republican. Social media is designed to be an anger generator because it drives engagement. These are a few factors that have lead us here.
Republicans have nurtured a dumb following for years by making high school texts simpler and less analytical. This leads to people confusing high prices with inflation.
Kindness and Empathy are a form of emotional intelligence in humans. I think dumb people fail to see the person in other humans and thus are more inclined to selfishness and evil.
I agree - also, rather than building broader communities based on kindness and empathy, the internet has instead empowered a larger number of people to seek attention. And a larger number of people fighting for a fixed resource leads to the breakdown of communities.
I have to keep my life simple, so I keep the news turned off and don't worry about the craziness going on in government as long as it's not reaching into my state.
To be fair .. it's the rich powerful bastards that lost empathy . We are all getting dumber though, use the internet sparingly and library lavishly (don't care, like the word lavishly, you know what I mean)
Trump is a conscienceless sociopath, drug addict, also demented, and stupid. You can't fix dementia or stupid. You can't fix sociopath. You will never fix his drug addiction. You can't fix Trump.
Thank a MAGAt that he is our Fascist Felon of the United States & congress is run by GOP idiots.
You can be smart and be kind. Ignorance, on the contrary, makes you more susceptible to misinformation and being more easily manipulated by show of force and malice.
People don't really want to see themselves as evil, so more and more mental energy goes into rationalization and not knowing inconvenient things. Compartmentalizing only leaves you with part of your brain.
Does the inverse also apply - are blissful people merely ignorant, and If Only They Knew, They Would Share In The Horror, The Absolute Horror Of It All..?
Unfortunately willful ignorance stems from a fear of the unknown, and when people want to know less than ever, they succumb to being nothing but reactionary beasts who lash out at anything they deem "different".
Also, animals are so much smarter than humans ever give them credit for, just because they have inner peace, doesn't mean they are dumb. Being gullible isn't a trait of stupidity either, but of trustworthiness.
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Doesn't matter what they call themselves once they are obsessed with their own righteousness to the removal of others, kindness goes out the door.
C'mon man, retrievers aren't #magat dumb. They are phi beta kappa compared to them.
More himbos, fewer incels
The idea that Golden Retrievers are "dumb" is just a stereotype. They're a very smart animal, people just think they're dumb cuz they're kind.
To be smart is to be kind. It is the ability to understand others and their feelings.
The Ven diagram of people who would perceive weakness as bad and kindness as dumb is a circle.
Golden retrievers are Lovley, but thinking it wouldn't bite you if you tried to hurt it's loved ones is true idiocy.
It must be fucking dexterity considering the fucking gymnastic it takes to have the inconsistent takes they do
Ignorance is piss!
It's hard to ask a starting man to care about the environment as it were.
Add to that that both parties tend toward supporters that are self righteous and you create a danger
Where and when did it all go wrong? You tell me.
I think if education put more energy into developing empathy, the next generations would solve a lot of problems we currently try (and fail) to solve with laws and surveillance
which is why evil is always dumb.
Meet and love is only way
Impossible tho
Progress is like a tree, but there are sadly people who are just as self righteousness as conservatives that they see any branch other then their own as just as far to the right as anything else.
Heard today they canned “Democracy Dies in Darkness” but haven’t followed up on that yet.
wheeee
Intelligent is thoughtful and caring
I have to keep my life simple, so I keep the news turned off and don't worry about the craziness going on in government as long as it's not reaching into my state.
Thank a MAGAt that he is our Fascist Felon of the United States & congress is run by GOP idiots.
exceedingly unhelpful at doing anything other than promoting harmful ideologies
I mean fuck that eugenicist movie, but…
That's not what the order says.
If that's true, then why do so many ignorant mfers wanna kill my friends?